School: ttappuska

[Rory M Larson]

Thanks, Justin.  That helps a lot!

I looked up 'school' and 'teacher' in the Pawnee dictionary at the AISRI 
website you offered.  'Teacher' is a long thing derived from the native 
verb 'to teach'.  'School' has about seven different entries.  Two are 
loanwords from English 'school'.  For taapuska, the Derivation box says: 
"borrowing ?"  So presumably it is not analyzable in Pawnee.

Your information that the Kaw Mission pastor in the 19th century was 
called ttappóska goes along with what I seem to see in Omaha and Osage, 
that the term originally referred to the teacher, not the school.  It's 
interesting that it has come to be used as the verb 'teach'; I haven't 
seen that elsewhere.  Does the word also mean 'school' in Kaw nowadays?

Thanks!
Rory





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Rory,
 
It's definitely in Kaw. The Kaw Mission pastor in the 19th century, Thomas 
Huffaker, was called ttappóska by the students. Plus, Bob's 20th century 
consultant Maude Rowe used it to mean 'teach.'
 
Also, I'm sure Linda knows Doug's email address just in case he's not a 
member of the board. But either way, I think a lot of his Pawnee 
dictionary data are available on the AISRI website at 
http://zia.aisri.indiana.edu/~dictsearch/. Just use the pull-down menu to 
switch between languages and dialects.
 
I hope this helps,
-Justin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Rory M Larson 
To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU 
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 12:37 PM
Subject: School: ttappuska

Hi all, 

I've been looking at the Omaha term ttappuska, presently meaning 'school', 
but apparently meaning 'schoolteacher' in the 19th century.  It also 
appears in Osage, in both the La Flesche dictionary and in Carolyn 
Quintero's recent "Osage Dictionary", where it is listed as taapo'ska.  I 
think is nicely analyzable in Dhegiha, but Carolyn's entry has the 
bracketted note: 

  [Borrowed from Pawnee taapuska 'school' (Douglas Parks). 
   The Pawnee word may have entered Osage at different times 
   in different forms, with or without preaspiration of the 
   stops (h)t and (h)p and with a long or short vowel aa 
   or a; it is losing or has lost the preaspiration in 
   (h)t and (h)p.] 

This claims that the term is actually a loan from Pawnee.  I'm wondering 
if Douglas Parks is on the list, or if anyone knows how to get in touch 
with him, or if anyone else on the list knows Pawnee well enough to 
comment?  Is the word analyzable in Pawnee, and if so, what is the 
meaning? 

Also, I'd like to know how widespread the term is.  Does it exist in Kaw? 
Iowa-Oto?  Ponka?  Any other language? 

Thanks for any advice! 

Rory 
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